The Education of Oronte Churm

The AWP is wrapping up today, and we’ll be jumping on a train later tonight, but I wanted to get...

My colleague Rory did an astonishingly competent job yesterday serving as moderator for the tribute to William Gass, sponsored by...

There was a small incident ten minutes into today’s AWP panel “Shameless Promotion: Get the Book to the Readers.” It...

Here's a pre-recorded version of the nonfiction reading I did today at AWP. Parts of it have appeared in different...

There are many temptations in the big city for a couple of fellers in from the literary countryside. Today was...

I’m working to clear the decks for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Chicago next week, including...

I continue today to be educated in new ways to freeze to death in a Victorian house. Though the thermostat...

My occasional book the past few weeks has been Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsün Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu...